Name
Milbourne Stanley Osler
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
30820
Bedfordshire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Milbourne Osler was born at Abbots Langley in the spring of 1883. He was one of four children (two sons, Milbourne and Harold, two daughters, Evelyn and Lucy) born to George and Elizabeth Osler. The family lived at Bedmond, where George worked as a Labourer and Bricklayer. Milbourne’s brother Harold also served in the Great War.
Milbourne married Sarah Chapman on 10th November 1906, and between 1907 and 1913 the couple had three children – two sons and a daughter.
When Milbourne was called up for service on 10th July 1916 the family lived at Bedmond, and he gave his occupation as Farm Labourer. The Leavesden Parish Record confirmed that he was employed as a Farm Labourer at the Leavesden Asylum. When he attested he had given a preference for serving with the Army Service Corps, however he was posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment Depot on 10th July and then to 9th Bedford’s on 14th August and then to 3rd Bedford’s on 7th September 1916.
Milbourne was first recorded with in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in August 1916. He was sent to France on 29th November 1916, and joined the Base Depot. On 9th December he was posted to the 4th Bedfordshire’s.
He was admitted to 30 Casualty Clearing Station on 20th April 1917 (reason unknown), and re-joined the Base depot on 30th June, and returned to the 4th Battalion of the Bedfordshire’s on 14th July 1917. The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine recorded that Milbourne’s wife Sarah had given birth to a baby daughter on 29th August 1917.
On 28th January 1918 Milbourne was granted leave and returned to England. When he returned to France he was mildly wounded by a gas shell on 19th March 1918, and was admitted to a Casualty Clearing Station on 23rd March. Three days later he was posted to 26th General Hospital. He was released from hospital on 9th May returned to his battalion on 12th May.
Milbourne continued to serve with the 4th Bedford’s until the end of hostilities and between 25th November and 8th December 1918 he was granted leave to England. He returned to France and was eventually transferred back to the UK for de-mobilisation on 31st January 1919. Milbourne was demobilised on 3rd March 1919.
Milbourne Osler survived the War. His brother Harold was Discharged Disabled around May 1917, and died on 18th May 1918.
Additional Information
Formerly 3rd & 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org, Carol Gray
